Palym

Beautiful place and well worth the trip.

First the good points - brilliant location for Gare de Lyon, literally a 2 minute walk from the station concourse to the hotel door. Our room had clearly been refurbished relatively recently and on the whole looked quite smart. However, a few not so good points. We certainly didn’t get a warm welcome when arriving at the hotel and the guy behind the desk was fairly abrupt. Maybe it’s just a sign of the area, but you have to buzz to ask the front desk to open the front door for you, and the reception desk is then hidden behind glass panels - maybe all this is just a throwback from the pandemic but the overall effect is that you feel you’re arriving at a very budget hotel. The room was tiny, even for Paris. To give an idea, the bathroom was so small it was physically impossible to sit on the toilet and close the door. Breakfast was OK but was nothing special and quite limited. Given the ridiculous prices hotels generally charge in Paris these days this hotel probably wasn’t too overpriced for what you get, and was fine for a quick overnight stay. I wouldn’t want to stay for multiple nights but if you were in Paris for longer you probably wouldn’t be looking to stay around Gare de Lyon area anyway.

Ok

Compact rooms but very clean and quiet. A little hallway noise but this is extremely quiet for Paris. The two twins beds pushed together with separate bedding is a little backward, especially when they start separating throughout the night but a good choice for a single night. Exceptional location to Gare du Lyon.

Absolutely nothing to complain about for the price. Clean rooms, recently refurbished, right next to Gate Du Lyon for early morning trains. Yes they take a damage deposit, and you aren't allowed to remove your room key from the building. So a bit quirky, but that's France for you. Plenty of shops, cafés and a bakery steps away. All in all, pretty good place that I would return to.